Vamp-stay for shoes



No. 608,734. PatentedAug. 9, I898.

.1. WALDEN. VAMP STAY FOR SHOES.

(Application filed Rev. 11, 1897.) (No Model.)

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JOSEPH "WALDEN, OF ORANGE, NEW JERSEY.

VAMP-STAY FOR SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 608,734, dated August 9, 1898. Application filed November 11, 1897. Serial No. 658,126. (No model.)

T0 60% whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JosEPH WALDEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New J ersey, have invented a new and useful Vamp- Stay for Shoes, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to vamp-stays for shoes. take the strain from the vamp, and in order to do that properly its edge must project somewhat outside or beyond the edge of the vamp. A vamp-stay made with one edge folded and from a straight piece of material has been used; but the object of my invention is to provide a vamp-stay which is folded on both edges and which is also curved. Instead, however, of folded edges a selvaged material may be used, being curved to form the vamp-stay, as hereinafter shown. The use of vamp-stays which are made from a straight piece of material is not satisfactory, because the two square corners of the projecting edge are an objectionable feature. \Vith a curved stay, as hereinafter shown and described, of course there are no projecting corners.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows a blank A of the material from which the vamp-stay is to be made. Unless selvaged this blank A is first folded on both edges to the line Ct, thus forming a folded blank 13, Fig. 2. I next take the blank B and by suitable means bend or form the same into the sinuous undulating shape which is shown in Fig. 3. No particular degree of sinuosity is essential; but the undulations are equal in their height-the distances of the points 1 2 3 a 5 above the dotted line b b. By cutting the sinuous undulating strip of folded (or selvaged) material along the central line b I) at the several points 7 8 9 10, Fig. 3, the entire piece is availed of and divided into the The vamp-stay is used in order to curved vamp-stays shown in Figs. 4. and 5. No portion of the material is wasted. Each vamp-stay is curved, and each is also folded on both edges unless selvage has been used. Fig. 6 is a view showing this curved ,vampstay '7 2 8 as used in a shoe, the point 2 proj ecting slightlybeyond the edge 0 of the Vamp. These curved and doubly-folded vamp-stays are of uniform size and possess all the advantages of such a stay as distinguished from the straight-piece stay with its projecting corners. hen I have used hereinbefore the word selvaged, I include the edges formed by compressing tubular woven material.

hat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As an article of manufacture, a sinuous strip 13, of suitable material, folded on both edges, and consisting of uniform undulations, said strip being adapted to be out, along the line b I), so that each of said undulations,when out, forms, and can be used as, a vamp-stay for shoes, substantially as shown and described.

2. As an article of manufacture, a sinuous strip B, of suitable material, of selvaged edge, and consisting of uniform undulations, said strip being adapted to be out, along the line b b, so that each undulation when out, forms a vamp-stay for shoes, substantially as shown and described.

3. As an article of manufacture, a sinuous strip 13, of compressed tubular woven material, and consisting of uniform undulations, said strip being adapted to be out, along the line Z) b, so that each undulation, when cut, forms a vamp-stay for shoes, substantially as shown and described.

Josnrn WALDEN.

\Vitnesses:

WM. S. BEAMAN, Gunners L. Drinks. 

